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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.Abraham Lincoln

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repelan invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary

for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Abraham Lincoln

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.Abraham Lincoln

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow inthought and mind.

Abraham Lincoln

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.Abraham Lincoln

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.Abraham Lincoln

A house divided against itself cannot stand.Abraham Lincoln

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.Abraham Lincoln



America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will bebecause we destroyed ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.Abraham Lincoln

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shakeoff the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable -

a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.Abraham Lincoln

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.Abraham Lincoln

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.Abraham Lincoln

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.Abraham Lincoln

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.Abraham Lincoln



Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the treeis the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many ofthem.

Abraham Lincoln

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and

planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.Abraham Lincoln

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As apeacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business

enough.Abraham Lincoln

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the onlysafeguard of our liberties.

Abraham Lincoln

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.Abraham Lincoln



Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that Ihave no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself

worthy of their esteem.Abraham Lincoln

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.Abraham Lincoln

Everybody likes a compliment.Abraham Lincoln

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.Abraham Lincoln

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.Abraham Lincoln

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.Abraham Lincoln



He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible tomake.

Abraham Lincoln

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.Abraham Lincoln

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't makeit a leg.

Abraham Lincoln

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet anynational crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Abraham Lincoln

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to

live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with himwhile he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.Abraham Lincoln

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.Abraham Lincoln

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.Abraham Lincoln

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every otherfriend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Abraham Lincoln



I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.Abraham Lincoln

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.Abraham Lincoln

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.Abraham Lincoln

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandsonwill be.

Abraham Lincoln

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.Abraham Lincoln

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.Abraham Lincoln

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck thecountry's cause.

Abraham Lincoln

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his placewill be proud of him.

Abraham Lincoln

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.Abraham Lincoln



I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me allmy life.

Abraham Lincoln

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.Abraham Lincoln

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted aflower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Abraham Lincoln

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.Abraham Lincoln

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.Abraham Lincoln

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.Abraham Lincoln

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well beclosed for any other business.

Abraham Lincoln



If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?Abraham Lincoln

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect andesteem.

Abraham Lincoln

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.Abraham Lincoln

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.Abraham Lincoln

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge

what to do, and how to do it.Abraham Lincoln

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it aleg.

Abraham Lincoln

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.Abraham Lincoln

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.Abraham Lincoln



In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, andone must be wrong.Abraham Lincoln

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.Abraham Lincoln

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.Abraham Lincoln

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.Abraham Lincoln

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could neverhave existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the

higher consideration.Abraham Lincoln

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently andbuild one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when

built.Abraham Lincoln

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty aswe understand it.Abraham Lincoln



Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Abraham Lincoln

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope ofearth.

Abraham Lincoln

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.Abraham Lincoln

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.Abraham Lincoln

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.Abraham Lincoln

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.Abraham Lincoln



Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in alllands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your

own doors.Abraham Lincoln

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln

Public opinion in this country is everything.Abraham Lincoln

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing cansucceed.

Abraham Lincoln

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before thedollar.

Abraham Lincoln

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, forGod is always right.Abraham Lincoln

Some day I shall be President.Abraham Lincoln

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.Abraham Lincoln



Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when hegoes wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, toexist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.Abraham Lincoln

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.Abraham Lincoln

The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separationfrom Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.Abraham Lincoln

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.Abraham Lincoln

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.Abraham Lincoln

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.Abraham Lincoln



The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.Abraham Lincoln

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled highwith difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew

and act anew.Abraham Lincoln

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Abraham Lincoln

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.Abraham Lincoln

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.Abraham Lincoln

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.Abraham Lincoln

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in thenext.

Abraham Lincoln

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a causewe believe to be just.

Abraham Lincoln

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his



liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, thesheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

Abraham Lincoln

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain'tread.

Abraham Lincoln

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Abraham Lincoln

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting thatanybody wishes to hinder him.

Abraham Lincoln

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter

of Time."Abraham Lincoln

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, Thisseeing is not the true one.

Abraham Lincoln

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.Abraham Lincoln

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power,they, and all others, shall have.

Abraham Lincoln



Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shallgrow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending

it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.Abraham Lincoln

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.Abraham Lincoln

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Abraham Lincoln

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.Abraham Lincoln

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.Abraham Lincoln

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.Abraham Lincoln

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow theConstitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.



Abraham Lincoln

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.Abraham Lincoln

Whatever you are, be a good one.Abraham Lincoln

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking aboutmyself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Abraham Lincoln

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.Abraham Lincoln

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.Abraham Lincoln

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do forthemselves.

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.Abraham Lincoln

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.Abraham Lincoln



You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot

fool all the people all the time.Abraham Lincoln

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.Abraham Lincoln

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to seethe right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him

personally.Abraham Lincoln

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let himrun.

Abraham Lincoln

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.Abraham Lincoln



If I talk to a girl, it's assumed that I'm having a scene with her. If I don't, then it's assumed thatI'm gay.

Shahrukh Khan

It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.Shahrukh Khan

Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.Shahrukh Khan

I don't kiss on screen. Period.Shahrukh Khan

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.Shahrukh Khan

I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selflessas Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa.

Shahrukh Khan

Recently an actor asked me to teach him how to speak fast. Wasn't I once criticised for speakingtoo fast? Now they're doing it my way.

Shahrukh Khan

Maybe the country doesn't pray for me like they do for Sachin Tendulkar, but I know I'm on agood wicket as well.



Shahrukh Khan

I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank.Shahrukh Khan

I'm no megalomaniac. Even I found it boring to have an entire website devoted to trivia aboutme. No one's interested in a one man show, unless you happen to be an Amitabh Bachchan.

Shahrukh Khan

I don’t sit around complaining about the lack of good roles. I will play Raj 85 times and stillmake him different.

Shahrukh Khan

I’d die if people didnt recognise me. I would not be able to walk on the road if people didnt mobme. That’s what I work for.

Shahrukh Khan

When I have the right to make you cry in a dark room for three hours, you have the right to askme any question you want.

Shahrukh Khan

Sex is not required to sell my film. My name is enough.Shahrukh Khan

The collar-bone is my favourite part of the human body.Shahrukh Khan

Awards who ignores me are losersShahrukh Khan



You never win the silver, you only lose the goldShahrukh Khan

The dream I chased, took me on a journey. A journey more rewarding then the goals, theachievements. When I look back it’s like facing a million mirrors. Each reflection opens a

window. A window to the world I’ve just discovered. The world I want to share with all of youShahrukh Khan

Thank you for giving me so much love, that I don’t miss my parents anymoreShahrukh Khan

You can love me or hate me but.. you can’t ignore meShahrukh Khan

I am very shy. If I am flying British Airways and the airhostess asks me two questions, and Idon’t understand her accent - I will go hungry for the entire flight.

Shahrukh Khan

I can't say that only the citizens litter. I must say that I have also been wrong in doing this. Weneed to ban plastics and be a little careful with garbage.

Shahrukh Khan

If it could have happened through a film that I was associated with, it would have made bedoubly proud. It makes me proud anyway. I am not disappointed.

Shahrukh Khan



Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.William Shakespeare

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.William Shakespeare

Love is too young to know what conscience is.William Shakespeare

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.William Shakespeare

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, andbreaks all chains from every mind.

William Shakespeare

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.William Shakespeare



Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

William Shakespeare

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids,but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

William Shakespeare

Men's vows are women's traitors!William Shakespeare

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.William Shakespeare

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.William Shakespeare

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.William Shakespeare

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.William Shakespeare

My pride fell with my fortunes.William Shakespeare



Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.William Shakespeare

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.William Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.William Shakespeare

Nothing can come of nothing.William Shakespeare

Now is the winter of our discontent.William Shakespeare

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.William Shakespeare

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!William Shakespeare

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.William Shakespeare



O, had I but followed the arts!William Shakespeare

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!William Shakespeare

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

William Shakespeare

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!William Shakespeare

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!William Shakespeare

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.William Shakespeare

Parting is such sweet sorrow.William Shakespeare



Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.William Shakespeare

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.William Shakespeare

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

William Shakespeare

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost withoutdeserving.

William Shakespeare

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

William Shakespeare

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.William Shakespeare

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.William Shakespeare

Speak low, if you speak love.William Shakespeare

Such as we are made of, such we be.William Shakespeare



Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.William Shakespeare

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.William Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.William Shakespeare

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.William Shakespeare

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.William Shakespeare

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.William Shakespeare

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

William Shakespeare

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.William Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth.



William Shakespeare

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.William Shakespeare

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.William Shakespeare

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.William Shakespeare

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.William Shakespeare

The golden age is before us, not behind us.William Shakespeare

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.William Shakespeare

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

William Shakespeare

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.William Shakespeare

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for



treasons, stratagems and spoils.William Shakespeare

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is andsteal out of your company.

William Shakespeare

The object of art is to give life a shape.William Shakespeare

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.William Shakespeare

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.William Shakespeare

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.William Shakespeare

The valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.William Shakespeare

The wheel is come full circle.William Shakespeare



There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

William Shakespeare

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, allthe voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now

afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.William Shakespeare

There is no darkness but ignorance.William Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.William Shakespeare

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

William Shakespeare

There's many a man has more hair than wit.William Shakespeare

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.William Shakespeare

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.William Shakespeare

There's place and means for every man alive.William Shakespeare



They do not love that do not show their love.William Shakespeare

They say miracles are past.William Shakespeare

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.William Shakespeare

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.William Shakespeare

This above all; to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.William Shakespeare

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.William Shakespeare

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.William Shakespeare

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.William Shakespeare



'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.William Shakespeare

To be, or not to be: that is the question.William Shakespeare

To do a great right do a little wrong.William Shakespeare

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false toany man.

William Shakespeare

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.William Shakespeare

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.William Shakespeare

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

William Shakespeare

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.



William Shakespeare

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.William Shakespeare

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from...Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their

elements.William Shakespeare

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.William Shakespeare

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form andmoving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a

god.William Shakespeare

What is past is prologue.William Shakespeare

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.William Shakespeare

What's done can't be undone.William Shakespeare



What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.William Shakespeare

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.William Shakespeare

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.William Shakespeare

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.William Shakespeare

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

William Shakespeare

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.William Shakespeare

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?William Shakespeare

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.William Shakespeare

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.William Shakespeare



Women may fall when there's no strength in men.William Shakespeare

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.William Shakespeare

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.William Shakespeare

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither partyloser.

William Shakespeare

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.William Shakespeare

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their

entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.William Shakespeare

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.William Shakespeare



An overflow of good converts to bad.William Shakespeare

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.William Shakespeare

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.William Shakespeare

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.William Shakespeare

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.William Shakespeare

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some havegreatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.William Shakespeare

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.William Shakespeare



Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.William Shakespeare

Boldness be my friend.William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.

William Shakespeare

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.William Shakespeare

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.William Shakespeare

By that sin fell the angels.William Shakespeare

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgmentlooked; and either may be wrong.

William Shakespeare

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare



Death is a fearful thing.William Shakespeare

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.William Shakespeare

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.William Shakespeare

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.William Shakespeare

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

William Shakespeare

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.William Shakespeare

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.William Shakespeare

Farewell, fair cruelty.William Shakespeare

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.William Shakespeare



For I can raise no money by vile means.William Shakespeare

For my part, it was Greek to me.William Shakespeare

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.William Shakespeare

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.William Shakespeare

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

William Shakespeare

Give thy thoughts no tongue.William Shakespeare

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.William Shakespeare

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.William Shakespeare

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.William Shakespeare



Having nothing, nothing can he lose.William Shakespeare

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.William Shakespeare

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.William Shakespeare

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.William Shakespeare

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

William Shakespeare

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.William Shakespeare

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.William Shakespeare

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.William Shakespeare

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!William Shakespeare



How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?William Shakespeare

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!William Shakespeare

How well he's read, to reason against reading!William Shakespeare

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.William Shakespeare

I bear a charmed life.

William Shakespeare

I dote on his very absence.William Shakespeare

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for ittoo!

William Shakespeare

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mineis a sad one.

William Shakespeare



I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.William Shakespeare

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughtercurbed by the will of a dead father.

William Shakespeare

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.William Shakespeare

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.William Shakespeare

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.William Shakespeare

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.William Shakespeare

I was adored once too.William Shakespeare

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.William Shakespeare

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetualmotion.

William Shakespeare



I will praise any man that will praise me.William Shakespeare

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on.

William Shakespeare

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poormen's cottage princes' palaces.

William Shakespeare

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the

greater share of honor.William Shakespeare

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speakthen unto me.

William Shakespeare

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.William Shakespeare

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we notdie? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

William Shakespeare



Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

William Shakespeare

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.William Shakespeare

In time we hate that which we often fear.William Shakespeare

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child.William Shakespeare

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.William Shakespeare

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.William Shakespeare

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.William Shakespeare

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.William Shakespeare



Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

William Shakespeare

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.William Shakespeare

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.William Shakespeare

Let no such man be trusted.William Shakespeare

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.William Shakespeare

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.William Shakespeare

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.William Shakespeare

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and thenis heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.William Shakespeare



Listen to many, speak to a few.William Shakespeare

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.William Shakespeare



50 things you might not know about Barack Obama

• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics

• He was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball

• His name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili

• His favourite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguini

• He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From MyFather

• He is left-handed – the sixth post-war president to be left-handed

• He has read every Harry Potter book

• He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali

• He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand icecream

• His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars

• He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia

• He can speak Spanish

• While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on



instead

• His favourite drink is black forest berry iced tea

• He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn't

• He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia

• He can bench press an impressive 200lbs

• He was known as Barry until university when he asked to be addressed by his fullname

• His favourite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

• He visited Wokingham, Berks, in 1996 for the stag party of his half-sister's fiancé, butleft when a stripper arrived

• His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy

• He and Michelle made $4.2 million (£2.7 million) last year, with much coming fromsales of his books

• His favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

• He carries a tiny Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraqfor good luck

• He applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while at Harvard but was rejected bythe all-female committee.

• His favourite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees

• He took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date

• He enjoys playing Scrabble and poker

• He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol

• He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician

• As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine

• His daughters' ambitions are to go to Yale before becoming an actress (Malia, 10) andto sing and dance (Sasha, 7)



• He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside

• He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal

• His house in Chicago has four fire places

• Daughter Malia's godmother is Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita

• He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry

• He uses an Apple Mac laptop

• He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having ditched his gas-guzzling Chrysler 300

• He wears $1,500 (£952) Hart Schaffner Marx suits

• He owns four identical pairs of black size 11 shoes

• He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21 (£13)

• His favourite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire

• He was given the code name "Renegade" by his Secret Service handlers

• He was nicknamed "Bar" by his late grandmother

• He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds

• His favourite artist is Pablo Picasso

• His speciality as a cook is chilli

• He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were "street urchins"

• He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol ofthe fragility of life

• His late father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rashwar.



Barack Obama

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.Barack Obama

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too littleof yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that

you realize your true potential.Barack Obama

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers byproviding the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Barack Obama

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the oneswe've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think theirleaders do.

Barack Obama

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of

music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'Barack Obama

I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job inmy White House.

Barack Obama



I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of

liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are timeswhen our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Barack Obama

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for itsrepeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban

gays and lesbians from marrying.Barack Obama

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.Barack Obama

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all aboutvalues and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

Barack Obama

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them andto promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

Barack Obama

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll makeprogress.

Barack Obama

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or apolitics of hope?Barack Obama

Issues are never simple. One thing IÕm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the



issues.Barack Obama

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun.Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a

little bit better than the one we inhabit today.Barack Obama

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who

aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain theirfrustrations.Barack Obama

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.Barack Obama

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.Barack Obama

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.Barack Obama

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities

of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in atolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Barack Obama

No one is pro-abortion.Barack Obama



Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of militarytransformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations.

This Administration has overextended our military.Barack Obama

Over the last 15 months, weÕve traveled to every corner of the United States. IÕve now been in57 states? I think one left to go.

Barack Obama

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.Barack Obama

Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist inPakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the

heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.Barack Obama

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peacewith the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly

damaging to our standing in the Arab world.Barack Obama

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhatsurprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

Barack Obama

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate acomplex message in a very short space is remarkable.

Barack Obama



There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war inIraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending

the United States of America.Barack Obama

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States ofAmerica. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian

America - there's the United States of America.Barack Obama

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.Barack Obama

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and shareits benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development.

But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.Barack Obama

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we willnot leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms

devastate our lands.Barack Obama

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, andmurder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread

those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.Barack Obama

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of ourskyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a

very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.Barack Obama



We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at alltimes... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership.

That's not going to happen.Barack Obama

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national securityobjectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as

powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.Barack Obama

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. Wemust make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can

still get the best education possible.Barack Obama

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and

they must be defeated.Barack Obama

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a youngteenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or

disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.Barack Obama

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to beexcellent.

Barack Obama

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars andwear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these

things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.



Barack Obama

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking aroundour libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in

the Red States.Barack Obama

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.Barack Obama

What Washington needs is adult supervision.Barack Obama

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclearproliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our

shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

Barack Obama

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed withoutextraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest

degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.Barack Obama

Why can't I just eat my waffle?Barack Obama

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges providelifetime employability.

Barack Obama



You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Barack Obama

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp theinfinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking

about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to

say.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“Sorrow comes to all...Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot nowrealize that you will ever feel better and yet you are sure to be happy again.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die”- Abraham Lincoln quotes



“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his

place will be proud of him.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will

be because we destroyed ourselves.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart

to let him down...”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am

bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, andstand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes



“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with yourfailure.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's

side, for God is always right”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“God must Abraham Lincoln the common man, he made so many of them”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the

dollar”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“I am not concerned that you have fallen / I am concerned that you arise.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until

the end”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes



“The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, neversuspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you

want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness

of purpose.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances

which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any onething.”- Abraham Lincoln quotes

"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward." - Abraham Lincoln



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under a just God, can not long retain it." - Abraham Lincoln



ABRAHAM LINCOLN QUOTES• If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of

God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now

wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due

to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divineattributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope,

fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God

wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bondman’s two hundred and fifty years

of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be

paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must

be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.” - View Quote Details

on If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of…

• Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and

formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and

pampered enemy. Did we brave all them to falter now? — now, when that same enemy is

wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail — if we

stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner

or later, the victory is sure to come. - View Quote Details on Of strange, discordant, and

even hostile elements, we gathered from…

• The following passage is the source of many supposed Lincoln quotes. Despite the quotation

marks (in the original), these are not Lincoln’s own words, but just Gerry McGeer ’s

interpretation of Lincoln’s policy. - View Quote Details on The following passage is the

source of many supposed Lincoln…

• Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is

due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation; but can we, while our votes

will prevent it, allow it to spread into the National Territories, and to overrun us here in these

Free States? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and

effectively. Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so

industriously plied and belabored — contrivances such as groping for some middle ground

between the right and the wrong, vain as the search for a man who should be neither a living

man nor a dead man — such as a policy of “don’t care” on a question about which all true

men do care — such as Union appeals beseeching true Union men to yield to Disunionists,

reversing the divine rule, and calling, not the sinners, but the righteous to repentance — such



as invocations to Washington, imploring men to unsay what Washington said, and undo

what Washington did. - View Quote Details on Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet

afford… • What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree. - View Quote Details

on What is to be, will be, and no prayers of…

• I do not like that man. I must get to know him better. - View Quote Details on I do not like

that man. I must get to…

• When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we

are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very

difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. I

surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. If all

earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do as to the existing institution. My

first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia, to their own native

land. But a moment’s reflection would convince me that whatever of high hope (as I think

there is) there may be in this in the long run, its sudden execution is impossible. If they were

all landed there in a day, they would all perish in the next ten days; and there are not surplus

shipping and surplus money enough to carry them there in many times ten days. What then?

Free them all, and keep them among us as underlings? Is it quite certain that this betters

their condition? I think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate, yet the point is not clear

enough for me to denounce people upon. What next? Free them, and make them politically

and socially our equals. My own feelings will not admit of this, and if mine would, we well

know that those of the great mass of whites will not. Whether this feeling accords with justiceand sound judgment is not the sole question, if indeed it is any part of it. A universal feeling,

whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot then make them equals.

It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be adopted, but for their

tardiness in this I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South. - View Quote Details

on When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible…

• The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a

cause we believe to be just. - View Quote Details on The probability that we may fail in the

struggle ought…

• I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember

when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency

conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling. It

was in the oath I took that I would, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the

Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was

it my view that I might take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power. I

understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath even forbade me to practically

indulge my primary abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery. I had publicly

declared this many times, and in many ways. And I aver that, to this day, I have done no

official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery. I did



understand however, that my oath to preserve the constitution to the best of my ability,

imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government —

that nation — of which that constitution was the organic law. - View Quote Details on I amnaturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing…

• I have never had the least apprehension that I or my friends would marry negroes if there

was no law to keep them from it, but as Judge Douglas and his friends seem to be in great

apprehension that they might, if there were no law to keep them from it, I give him the most

solemn pledge that I will to the very last stand by the law of this State, which forbids the

marrying of white people with negroes. - View Quote Details on I have never had the least

apprehension that I or…

• Under the Dred Scott decision, “squatter sovereignty” squatted out of existence, tumbled

down like temporary scaffolding — like the mould at the foundry served through one blast

and fell back into loose sand — helped to carry an election, and then was kicked to the winds.

- View Quote Details on Under the Dred Scott decision, “squatter sovereignty” squatted out

of…

• We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with

each newspaper we read. - View Quote Details on We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety

beclouds the…

• “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure,

permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not

expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one

thing or all the other. - View Quote Details on “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this…

• There lies the most perfect ruler of men the world has ever seen. Now he belongs to the ages.

- View Quote Details on There lies the most perfect ruler of men the world…

• In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular

color. - View Quote Details on In his company I was never in any way reminded…

• Judge Douglas frequently, with bitter irony and sarcasm, paraphrases our argument by

saying: “The white people of Nebraska are good enough to govern themselves, but they are

not good enough to govern a few miserable negroes!”

Well! I doubt not that the people of Nebraska are and will continue to be as good as the

average of people elsewhere. I do not say the contrary. What I do say is that no man is good

enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. I say this is the leading

principle, the sheet-anchor of American republicanism. Our Declaration of Independence

says: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are

endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty

and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among

men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

I have quoted so much at this time merely to show that, according to our ancient faith, the

just powers of governments are derived from the consent of the governed. Now the relation



of master and slave is pro tanto a total violation of this principle. The master not only

governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether

different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow all the governed an equal voice inthe government, and that, and that only, is self-government. - View Quote Details on Judge

Douglas frequently, with bitter irony and sarcasm, paraphrases our…

• I propose now closing up by requesting you play a certain piece of music or a tune. I thought

“Dixie” one of the best tunes I ever heard… I had heard our adversaries over the way had

attempted to appropriate it. I insisted yesterday that we had fairly captured it… I presented

the question to the Attorney-General, and he gave his opinion that it is our lawful prize… I

ask the Band to give us a good turn upon it. - View Quote Details on I propose now closing

up by requesting you play a…

• My earlier views on the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human

origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no

reason for thinking I shall ever change them. -View Quote Details on My earlier views on the

unsoundness of the Christian scheme…

• In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American People, find our

account running, under date of the nineteenth century of the Christian era. — We find

ourselves in the peaceful possession, of the fairest portion of the earth, as regards extent of

territory, fertility of soil, and salubrity of climate. We find ourselves under the government of

a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious

liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. We, when mounting the stage

of existence, found ourselves the legal inheritors of these fundamental blessings. -View Quote Details on In the great journal of things happening under the sun,…

• If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? - View Quote Details on If I were two-

faced, would I be wearing this one?

• We leave to some Emil Ludwig or his ilk the drawing of Abraham Lincoln’s portrait with rosy

little wings. Lincoln’s significance lies in his not hesitating before the most severe means

once they were found to be necessary in achieving a great historic aim posed by the

development of a young nation. The question lies not even in which of the warring camps

caused or itself suffered the greatest number of victims. History has different yardsticks for

the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-

owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through

cunning or violence breaks the chains — let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are

equals before a court of morality! - View Quote Details on We leave to some Emil Ludwig or

his ilk the…

• We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved,

these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as

no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious

hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we

have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were



produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken

success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving

grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! -View Quote Details on We have been therecipients of the choicest bounties of…

• I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation’s condition is not what either party, or any

man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God

now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of

the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein

new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God. - View Quote Details on I

claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly…

• Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to

send a barrel of it to my other generals. - View Quote Details onWell, I wish some of you

would tell me the…

• Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation

survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came… Neither

party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained.

Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict

itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and

astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid

against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s

assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces; but let us judge notthat we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been

answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. - View Quote Details on Both parties

deprecated war, but one of them would make…

• I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any

national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. - View Quote Details on I am a

firm believer in the people. If given…

• Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,

conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we

are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and

so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come

to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives

that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a

larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow, this ground. The

brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor

power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but

it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to

the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather

for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored



dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of

devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this

nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. - View Quote Details on Four

score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth…

• Perhaps a man’s character is like a tree, and his reputation like its character: the shadow is

what we think of it, the tree is the real thing. - View Quote Details on Perhaps a man’s

character is like a tree, and his…

• If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you

don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known

his name. - View Quote Details on If there is not the war, you don’t get the…

• Now let it be written in history and on Mr. Lincoln’s tombstone: “He died an unbeliever.” -

View Quote Details on Now let it be written in history and on Mr…

• So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war! -View Quote

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• I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I

can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. - View Quote

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• You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you

can not fool all of the people all of the time. - View Quote Details on You can fool some of the

people all of the…

•

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. - View Quote Details on Men are not flattered by being shown that

there has…

• Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people

have already settled — the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One

still remains — its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to

overthrow it. It is now for them to demonstrate to the world that those who can fairly carry

an election can also suppress a rebellion; that ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors

of bullets; and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionally decided, there can be no

successful appeal back to bullets… Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that

what they cannot take by election, neither can they take it by war; teaching all the folly of

being the beginners of a war. - View Quote Details on Our popular government has often

been called an experiment. Two…

• I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the

states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do

so. - View Quote Details on I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with…

• Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight

hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States,

containing, among other things, the following, to wit: That on the first day of January, in the



year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves

within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion

against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the ExecutiveGovernment of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will

recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress

such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. That the

Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States

and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion

against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day

be, in good faith, represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen

thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have

participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive

evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United

States. - View Quote Details on Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the

year…

• The new year of 1854 found slavery excluded from more than half the States by State

Constitutions, and from most of the national territory by congressional prohibition.

Four days later, commenced the struggle, which ended in repealing that congressional

prohibition.

This opened all the national territory to slavery, and was the first point gained.

This necessity had not been overlooked; but had been provided for, as well as might be, in the

notable argument of “squatter sovereignty,” otherwise called “sacred right of selfgovernment,” which latter phrase, though expressive of the only rightful basis of any

government, was so perverted in this attempted use of it as to amount to just this: That if any

one man, choose to enslave another, no third man shall be allowed to object. - View Quote

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• Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine

the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged. - View Quote Details

on Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale…

• I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. - View Quote Details on I destroy my

enemies when I make them my friends.

• When, early in the war, Gen. Fremont attempted military emancipation, I forbade it, because

I did not then think it an indispensable necessity. When a little later, Gen. Cameron, then

Secretary of War, suggested the arming of the blacks, I objected, because I did not yet think it

an indispensable necessity. When, still later, Gen. Hunter attempted military emancipation, I

again forbade it, because I did not yet think the indispensable necessity had come. When, in

March, and May, and July 1862 I made earnest, and successive appeals to the border states

to favor compensated emancipation, I believed the indispensable necessity for military

emancipation, and arming the blacks would come, unless averted by that measure. They

declined the proposition; and I was, in my best judgment, driven to the alternative of either



surrendering the Union, and with it, the Constitution, or of laying strong hand upon the

colored element. I chose the latter. In choosing it, I hoped for greater gain than loss; but of

this, I was not entirely confident. More than a year of trial now shows no loss by it in ourforeign relations, none in our home popular sentiment, none in our white military force, —

no loss by it any how or any where. On the contrary, it shows a gain of quite a hundred and

thirty thousand soldiers, seamen, and laborers. These are palpable facts, about which, as

facts, there can be no cavilling. We have the men; and we could not have had them without

the measure. - View Quote Details on When, early in the war, Gen. Fremont attempted

military emancipation,…

• He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. -View Quote

Details on He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas…

• America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will

be because we destroyed ourselves. - View Quote Details on America will never be destroyed

from the outside. If we…

• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I

can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged

in. - View Quote Details on Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any…

• Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

- View Quote Details on Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go…

• Such a decision is all that slavery now lacks of being alike lawful in all the States. Welcome,

or unwelcome, such decision is probably coming, and will soon be upon us, unless the power

of the present political dynasty shall be met and overthrown. We shall lie down pleasantlydreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their State free, and we shall

awake to the reality instead, that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave State. To meet

and overthrow the power of that dynasty is the work now before all those who would prevent

that consummation. This is what we have to do. How can we best do it ? - View Quote Details

on Such a decision is all that slavery now lacks of…

• The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free

republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves. - View

Quote Details on The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown,…

• Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of

redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. - View Quote

Details on Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient…

• He has a face like a hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly it becomes beautiful, with its

strange mouth, its deep-cut, criss-cross lines, and its doughnut complexion. - View Quote

Details on He has a face like a hoosier Michael Angelo, so…

• Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and

maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a

piece of demagogism as this? - View Quote Details on Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in

the government of a…



• Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken

this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. -

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• It’s my experience that folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues. - View Quote

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• Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can

not long retain it. - View Quote Details on Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not

for…

• That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just

encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house

of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring

that his own shall be safe from violence when built. -View Quote Details on That some

should be rich, shows that others may become…

• You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help small men by

tearing down big men. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the

wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending

more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds.

You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage

by taking away a man’s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by

doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. - View Quote Details onYou

cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You… • We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing its end. It has cost a vast

amount of treasure and blood… It has indeed been a trying hour for the Republic; but I see in

the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety

of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of

corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to

prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated

in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the

safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions

may prove groundless. - View Quote Details on We may congratulate ourselves that this

cruel war is nearing…

• Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold,

calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and

defence. — Let those materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound morality, and in

particular, a reverence for the constitution and laws: and, that we improved to the last; that

we remained free to the last; that we revered his name to the last; that, during his long sleep,

we permitted no hostile foot to pass over or desecrate his resting place; shall be that which to

learn the last trump shall awaken our WASHINGTON.

Upon these let the proud fabric of freedom rest, as the rock of its basis; and as truly as has



been said of the only greater institution, “the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” - View

Quote Details on Passion has helped us; but can do so no more…

• From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived

through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in

business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election

at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48.

Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58.

Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln. - View Quote Details on From

time to time, life as a leader can look…

• Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - View Quote Details

on Most folks are about as happy as they make up…

• Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man, this race and that race

and the other race being inferior and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position.

Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall

once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal. - View Quote Details on Let us

discard all this quibbling about this man and…

• There are those who denounce us openly to their own friends and yet whisper us softly, that

Senator Douglas is the aptest instrument there is with which to effect that object…. They

remind us that he is a great man, and that the largest of us are very small ones. Let this be

granted. But “a living dog is better than a dead lion.” Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion, for

this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery?

He does not care anything about it. His avowed mission is impressing the “public heart” tocare nothing about it…. For years he has labored to prove it a sacred right of white men to

take negro slaves into the new Territories. Can he possibly show that it is less a sacred right

to buy them where they can be bought cheapest? And unquestionably they can be bought

cheaper in Africa than in Virginia. He has done all in his power to reduce the whole question

of slavery to one of a mere right of property; and as such, how can he oppose the foreign slave

trade — how can he refuse that trade in that “property” shall be “perfectly free” — unless he

does it as a protection to the home production? And as the home producers will probably not

ask the protection, he will be wholly without a ground of opposition. - View Quote Details

on There are those who denounce us openly to their own…

• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. -View Quote

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• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. -

View Quote Details on Give me six hours to chop down a tree and…

• The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled

high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think

anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall our selves, and then we shall save our country.

Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will

be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare



one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or

dishonor, to the latest generation. - View Quote Details on The dogmas of the quiet past, are

inadequate to the… • The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. - View Quote Details

on The best thing about the future is that it comes…

• There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. In any case that arises, as for

instance, the promulgation of abolitionism, one of two positions is necessarily true; that is,

the thing is right within itself, and therefore deserves the protection of all law and all good

citizens; or, it is wrong, and therefore proper to be prohibited by legal enactments; and in

neither case, is the interposition of mob law, either necessary, justifiable, or excusable. -

View Quote Details on There is no grievance that is a fit object of…

• It is better to stay silent and let people think you are an idiot than to open your mouth and

remove all doubt. - View Quote Details on It is better to stay silent and let people think…

• This is essentially a people’s contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining

in the world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the

condition of men — to lift artificial weights from their shoulders; to clear the paths of

laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life.

Yielding to partial and temporary departures, from necessity, this is the leading object of the

government for whose existence we contend. - View Quote Details on This is essentially a

people’s contest. On the side of…

• It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the

world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time;and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other

the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the

same spirit that says, “You toil and work and earn bread, and I’ll eat it.” No matter in what

shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own

nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving

another race, it is the same tyrannical principle. - View Quote Details on It is the eternal

struggle between these two principles —…

• I went to the White House shortly after tea where I found “the original gorilla,” about as

intelligent as ever. What a specimen to be at the head of our affairs now! - View Quote

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“We must think anew, and act anew.” - Abraham Lincoln

Did anyone in history understand the importance of thinking and acting anew more than

Abraham Lincoln? When President Lincoln wrote the words above, his beloved country was

facing its darkest hour: The Civil War. He wrote, “The dogmas of the quiet past are

inadequate to the stormy present. We must think anew, and act anew.”

2010 is on our doorstep. In fact, as I’m typing these words, he’s making his way into many

homes. The type of house guest he’ll become is, to a large extent up to us. If we are able

to approach old problems with new solutions, he may be the finest house guest we’ve ever

had. However, if we keep doing that which isn’t quite good enough , he’ll be like the

overbearing uncle that always wears out his welcome as he wears out our nerves.

Thinking and acting anew is pretty much what New Year’s Resolutions are all about. When

the man who is 40 pounds overweight sits down with his pen and paper and writes “Eat out

less often…. Walk for 30 minutes each day…. No more fries!… etc.” he is, in fact, finding

new approaches to 40 old problems. In the period of time that he spends with his pen and

paper, his mind searches for new actions that’ll solve his problem, new ideas that’ll lead him

to a happier and healthier life. If he just wrote “Lose weight” on his paper, he wouldn’t be

making a resolution as much as he’d be making a wish.

If you want your own New Year’s Resolutions to help guide you along the path to making

your dreams come true, be specific. Take specific problems and come up with specific

solutions.

As one of the greatest Americans to ever live said, “We must think anew, and act anew.”



I’d like to take the opportunity to wish you the happiest and healthiest 2010 imaginable. I

hope you laugh daily, love deeply, and live life as it’s meant to be lived – out loud and with a

smile on your face. If you have big dreams, I hope you’ll never quit running toward themand if you have high hopes, I hope you never quit reaching for them. God bless you and

those you dearly love! Happy New Year! – Joi

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